It is the year 1691...The land of Transylvania has been at peace for 100 years now, and the peasants and villagers have begun to purge their minds of the memories of the times when the lands were dominated by chaos and shadows, and when the undead walked ...

Castlevania III abandons the adventure game elements of its immediate predecessor and returns to the platform game roots of the first Castlevania game. Unlike Castlevania, however, Castlevania III is not strictly linear: after completing the first level, ...

In the land of Lorin, Lady Ninita has been kidnapped by the evil necromancer Demiwind. Sir Burkelot has to fight his way through ten levels to be reunited with his lover. Having mastered the ancient art of Dragon Style Kung Fu, he has many types of attack...

Billy "Big Bang" Blitz is a sergeant in a tactical ops group called S.A.B.R.E. (Special Assault Brigade for Real Emergencies). He and his fellow operative Mary are recalled from leave to deal with an emergency situation: Professor Plum, creator of a Dooms...

Code Name: Viper is a NES action game where the player has to go to South America under the command of an Army commander in order to bust up a commando army. But in the end, the player realizes that the commander is corrupt and he ends up killing his supe...

All versions of the game are very similar, with the same graphics (taking into account the various limitations of the platforms). The player (Super Joe) starts by being dropped off in a jungle by a helicopter, and has to fight his way out singlehandedly, ...

Long ago the Crystal Palace was a thriving kingdom, however the evil war spirit Zaras appeared one day and brought destruction to the lands! The people of the Crystal Palace left as Zaras and his henchman took over, changing the kingdom into a maze of man...

The player's character is equipped with a semi-automatic rifle with an unlimited amount of ammunition and can jump, move and fire in all four cardinal directions and all four ordinal directions. The protagonists can move and jump simultaneously while firi...

Contra Force departs from many of the Contra gameplay conventions. The game is still a combination of over-head and side-scrolling shooting, but many changes have been made. There are four characters to choose from, each with his own arsenal of weapons. C...

Set off on an adventure through time with DAY DREAMIN' DAVEY. Go into the past to challenge the Cyclops of ancient Greece. Visit Merlin the Magician to learn a variety of spells. When you have gotten through all of the historical areas, prepare for the fi...

The object of the game is to run down pedestrians in your automotive death machine. Progress through the race courses, moving from west to east starting with San Diego and Phoenix. Each course consists of capturing a flag and finding the exit door, all wh...

The Mutech Corporation has created their Gamma Base on what used to be Alcatraz Island. Their attempts at creating computer intelligence has backfired, as the AI they've created has taken over the computer systems and is threatening the world! Deep in the...

Dr. Mayhem has performed atomic experiments on Dynatron City. This has produced six powerful superheroes. However, it has also established a large number of enemies for the heroes to fight. Take control of the good guys and use their special abilities to ...

The game contains three worlds, with two stages in each of them plus a final stage making 7 stages total. In order to regain the pieces of the shattered sword and advance in the game, the player must defeat a boss at the end of every stage. The player wil...

In DIE HARD you assume the role of John McClane. Terrorists have invaded the Nakatomi building and it is up to McClane to work his way through the building defeating the terrorist and saving the hostages. Based on the film; take the role of John McClane; ...

Dirty Harry: The War Against Drugs is a 1990 video game based on Dirty Harry film franchise starring Clint Eastwood. The game is a side-scroller, and does not follow any particular storyline, except of course the eponymous War Against Drugs. 'Dirty' Harry...

The story of Double Dragon is set in a post-apocalyptic version of New York City, five years after a Nuclear War, where gangs and criminal organizations take control of the city. The protagonists are Billy and Jimmy Lee, the titular duo and the successors...

Double Dragon II drops the rescue premise of the original game in favor of a revenge theme (hence the subtitle). Whereas in the original game, Marian was merely kidnapped, in the sequel she is shot to death by Black Warriors' leader Willy right in the...

The NES version of Double Dragon III: The Rosetta Stone (spelled with a roman numeral), unlike the arcade version, was developed in-house by Technos Japan rather than East Technology. Both versions of the game were also developed in tandem. The English-la...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1989 game for the Nintendo Entertainment System released by Bandai that is split between a light and dark world. In the real world, Dr. Jekyll moves right through Victorian England, as he walks to a nearby church for his weddi...